The project of the Sala 1 space, which began in September with the Cruel Fairy Tales exhibition, has seen and will see young Sardinian artists exhibiting a single work designed specifically for the museum and the hall, for one or two weeks. The MAN wanted and wants in this way to support and give visibility to youth creativity in a dynamic and plural way, documenting its activity, encouraging dissemination and information on youth artistic production. The work 1/60 by Mario Fois combines, in a refined synthesis, painting and colour, frame and installation, seriality and uniqueness. The sixty modules function as megapixels of a universe that expands in search of new symmetries, fragments in themselves and self-sufficient, encapsulated in transparent cases that isolate and protect them, parts of a whole in the process of being defined where vibration and movement are the common denominators.

Mario Fois was born in 1971 in Nuoro where, already at the end of the 80s, he began to operate in the field of aerosol art and street culture. After a few years of intense activity, without detaching himself from the artistic spirit that marked his first expressions, he reaches the canvas and traditional painting techniques with particular attention to the use of color typical of American abstract expressionism. In the mid-90s he was among the founders of Kentu Concas Kentu Berrittas, an artistic movement characterized by maximum individual freedom and intense exhibition activity. In recent years Fois has been the protagonist of several solo exhibitions, in which he has demonstrated his ability to deal effectively with the most disparate techniques and formats, moving from the micro to the macro without ever losing sight of the meaning of painting understood as the liberation of the gesture.